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    The most we ever got for pelts was £7 wet. 15 years before that they were worth £25. There was lads working in the building boom in Ireland in the 70's on top money but still gave it up in the Winter to get skins. There was also the bounty back then (before my time) and you heard some great stories. Around the border the lads would bring the tongue of the fox into the local Garda station and get the bounty. They then went across the border with the brush of the same fox and collected the bounty off the RUC. I heard of one sergeant who wouldn't handle the fox tail and used to tell the lads
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    Just out of school one of the men who showed me the ropes would use any method to obtain game, including deer wires. I questioned some of his methods one day and he said if it put's bread on the table it ain't cruel. Mind you it was more about beer money back then than bread. Funny enough, the same man if he was out for sport was very much a sportsman. Hares got law, one dog. Digging, one terrier at a time and no hard terriers as he didn't like to see a terrier hurt. Someone mentioned live rabbits. When I was a first year apprentice butcher I was working hard for £60 a week. One Sun
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    WHAT ????????????? I was told mine was an original . It's a nice one alright. The pic I put up doesn't do it justice.
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    When I used to follow the Meath hounds Marshman a John Emms painting called The Bitch Pack of the Meath Hounds came up for auction. It sold for half a million. He's one of the best. I have loads of sporting prints up around the house, my favourite terrier one is Off The Coupling.
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    Watch it now and again for the footage but have to admit I was rather amused the other night when they were looking at Black Grouse and Cwis Packham asked Mikeala did she like Blackcock ?
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    Don't Treehands, take my advice. Fatman and his mates will make the Kells lads look like angels, LOL.
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    you still can,t win as you will always upset somebody,do you pick a big terrier that's showing heavy signs of serious work or go for a nice smaller type with less obvious signs of work,the most marked are not necessarily the best workers,it really is about what the judge actually likes and works himself, Plucky One show I judged a few years ago when it came to picking the champion the Whippet judge and the Lurcher judge came over to me after examining the terrier I'd picked and said "we can't span the terrier." I said "I've a yard full of terriers that can't be spanned, that would make me
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    I've seen it all now, . I prefer a golf caddy myself. One of the ones with a little motor.
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    Same here Shane, rabbit sized. Squashed but could tell what it was by it's ears. Dug and released a pregnant vixen yesterday.
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    Regarding shows ? As has been already said,they're a day out and when properly ran put a respectable face to a little known way of life to outsiders. IMO it's up to organisers to ALWAYS pick a judge who's serious about terrierwork. Even then there'll be complaints, but that's a fact of life. IMO show ponies are easily spotted. I'll give an example, at Tandragee (one of the best) a few years back I was talking to a well known showman. I noticed two of his terriers were freshly marked. I asked him was he doing a bit of mid Summer digging ? He told me that he'd been exercising them and the
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    Good stuff. Nearly as nice as the school teacher anti who recently was found guilty of assaulting a child at a hunt and lost her job. Good that they're being seen for what they really are.
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    Why don't you go to that one mate re live your youth lol There should be a class for stolen terriers at that show.
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    That's a very nice offer Treehands, thank you. It's been nice remembering some great lads ( but rogues ) who've gone before us.
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    Hearing of the dig rings a bell. It looks like Paccys Kizzy and Max came from your direction. Paccy was a hard worker but he used to take 6 or 7 weeks off every year for cubbing and he'd do more digging in those weeks than the rest of the Winter. And it was Max and Kizzy who'd do most of the work so you could be talking about 50 or 60 digs to 2 terriers in those few weeks. One last tale involving him. My uncle Jimmy was the chairman of Kells Coursing Club for years. One year he wanted to get 2 of his dogs into the Coursing meet but rules allowed only one. So they entered one of the d
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    , that was him all over. A complete rogue. He was very well liked by the local foxhounds as he did a lot for them. But he still went out one night and shot 21 foxes, . He was a very good fly fisherman too. But that doesn't mean every trout in his freezer was hooked fair and square . He once called to my house at Christmas and handed me a large fish wrapped in plastic. Happy Christmas he said. I gave it to my mother as she loves salmon. She opened the bag. It was a 12 lb Brown trout with a hole through the top of it's head it was as tough as old boots. We called for him one Sunday
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    You think that's bad. My neighbour was banging on the wall and screaming at 3 am this morning. It's just as well I was up already practicing on my drum kit.
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    Great picture Liam. Lovely to have. It's hard to make out but is the phone number on the truck 7 ??? I have a similar photo of my great grandfather in 1916 but it wasn't rabbits they were shooting .
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    I forgot to add in the story of the Salmon under the car that that happened outside a pub called The Round Tower right on the main street in Kells.
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    I remember that cabin well and at the time NM had a very useful border called Scamp. I was there only a couple of years ago doing a bit for the current keeper. He's an Exmoor man and said he thought the deer on Exmoor were the biggest, until he seen the Red Deer in Meath. Treehands, that lurcher you mentioned, Smoker, I actually bought him for Paccy. Paccy asked me to pick him up a lurcher and I bought him at a Game Fair in Slane Castle in the early 90's. Shortly after Paccy was driving along with Smoker sitting on the back seat when he jumped into the front, landed on Paccy, who then sai
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    LOL, when I seen you said Paccy put you in the hospital with a bar I laughed. Paccy played rugby and got a bad shoulder injury once. He was just over the injury when he came over to me for a dig. He was leaning over the dig, looking in, while I was digging and I hit a rock and hit his shoulder with the handle of the shovel. He rolled around on the ground in agony. God love him. He didn't give a shit about anything , except for the time his dogs were stolen. He put the word out and his dogs were left back. You didn't mess with Paccy .
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    A 20 year old pair of wellies....pmsl. Where you wearing.....in the house... A 20 year old pair of wellies....pmsl. Where you wearing.....in the house...I'd much rather wear boots and gators so the wellies are a last resort or if I do a bit of fishing ...just feed them a bit of baby oil every now and then keeps em supple. One thing I'll say Kanny is that 20 years ago Hunter were the BEST but nowadays they're substandard. I bought a pair of Balmorals last year. 4 months I got out of them. IMO a lot of wellies nowadays are like shooting clothing, they're made for those who stand at a peg
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    Go on Mixed Grill, explain to everyone on here why an hour is not unusual to wait in a big place (which is what I said in a post months ago, but Goat keeps bringing up) before starting to dig to your terrier.Now, I would appreciate good advice because I'm always willing to learn and still am. So Mixed Grill, tell us, why is it bullshit to give a terrier maybe an hour in a big place to settle. Educate us please. Can your terriers do an hour before hearing the shovels coming ? Tell us. NO At least you're a little bit honest.
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    Go on Mixed Grill, explain to everyone on here why an hour is not unusual to wait in a big place (which is what I said in a post months ago, but Goat keeps bringing up) before starting to dig to your terrier. Now, I would appreciate good advice because I'm always willing to learn and still am. So Mixed Grill, tell us, why is it bullshit to give a terrier maybe an hour in a big place to settle. Educate us please. Can your terriers do an hour before hearing the shovels coming ? Tell us.
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    But there's time for sitting around for a hour like you said you do before a shovel gets any soil on it? No point in starting to dig until it's time.
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